I KILLED THIS!!! I went completely unbroken from the start of the WOD til the 12th rep of lunges in round 2. After that I got kinda gassed and broke up the lunges, but kept unbroken for the rest of the WOD. Killer workout!! Fastest so far today.

Sunday - August 11

I had originally decided that today would be a running day and I'd go to open gym to work on my muscle up and some other gymnastic stuff. But my upper body is very tired and sore. So I am gonna call today a rest day. I may do a little open water swimming later on, but nothing of substance really. The body needs to rest after the heavy days this week.

OK, this was way harder than I expected it to be. I got thru 19 thrusters unbroken on the first round. If this was Fran, I'd have done the extra 2 before dropping the bar, but another 6 was a little bit of a tall order. The rest of the workout wasn't so bad, til I got back to the thrusters...UGH...had to do 3 or 4 at a time, and I even whacked myself in the nose on the first rep of the last 25. OUCH.

SO! Yesterday I decided to work on my deadlifts instead of doing the daily WOD. And guess what today's WOD is...yep...DEADLIFTS. Interesting how things work. I will give it my best shot again today, but if I don't hit my 315 from yesterday I'm using yesterday's score. SO THERE. Scratch that shit, I PR'ed AGAIN!! 325 baby!!

Thursday - August 8

Strength

20m

EXERCISE

Sets

Minreps

Maxreps

Minwt.(lb)

Maxwt.(lb)

LEGS - Deadlifts

7

1

5

135

315

No WOD today, just decided to go work on deadlifts. Its about time I tried to PR my 1RM DL. Last year I struggled at 275. I wanted at least 285 for one rep. I got it...and then I got 305 and 315. I failed at 335. Should have gone up to 320 or 325 before I tried 335. Oh well, next time.

I absolutely killed the runs on this. The hang snatches weren't bad today. I had been worried about my shoulder but I guess I was warmed up enough that the weight was ok.

After round 1 I was in third place behind two other guys, about 10 sec behind. After round 2, I was sneaking up on them. Round 3, I passed one guy on the run. Round 4, passed the other. All on the 200m runs, and this was after I missed the box on one of my jumps and put a nasty contusion under my knee. YAY PAIN!!

I got 8 full rounds in at 145 (175 was NOT happening) and started on round 9. I only got thru 7 C/J before time ran out. I'm pretty happy with this result though, that's 43 clean and jerk at 145#, which is a pretty good advancement in my strength.

As soon as I can get my shoulders to cooperate, and my form a little better, I should be getting a lot stronger.